Geography
These steep, rocky part of geography covered the Greek mainland and made travel very difficult.
Mountains
This city-state was a military society where boys trained for war from age seven.
Sparta
This form of government, meaning "rule by the people," was invented by Athens.
What is democracy?
This is a Greek contribution that students still learn today.
Math/Geometry
This was the main job of a Spartan man.
What is a soldier?
This is what the Greeks called the sea because they used it for travel and trade like a road.
Liquid highway
This city-state valued education, art, and government, and invented democracy.
Athens
These were the only people who could vote in Athens.
Free men born in Athens/Citizens
This Greek contribution is still used today when we are sick.
Medicine
These city-states were the two most famous in ancient Greece.
Athens and Sparta
Greece is surrounded by what?
The Mediterranean, Ionian, and Aegean Seas
Because men in this city-state were always away training or fighting, women had more freedom and could own land.
Sparta
Each city-state in Greece was ______ and had their own government.
Isolated/Separated by mountains
These exciting stories about gods, heroes, and monsters were created by the ancient Greeks.
Myths
This is the term for independent, self-governing cities in ancient Greece, like Athens and Sparta.
City-states
This geographical feature, along with a long coastline, helped the Greeks become skilled shipbuilders and sailors.
Natural harbors
In this city-state, women had almost no political rights and were expected to stay at home.
Athens
Philosophy is ________-.
A way of thinking.
The Greeks invented these two types of plays that we still enjoy today.
Drama/comedy/theater
The Greeks turned to the sea for resources because this was scarce due to the mountains.
Farmland
This is the main reason Greece developed separate city-states instead of one united country.
Geographic isolation caused by steep, rocky mountains
This group in Athens had few rights or no political power.
Women
Socrates, Platos, and Aristotle all studied what?
Philosphy
Name two ways ancient Greece still influences our world today.
Democracy, philosophy, myths, drama, comedy, Olympic Games, geometry, medicine, etc.
These three great philosophers were connected as a chain of teacher and student.
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle